As I posted yesterday, SolidWorks Corp. posted the full download of SolidWorks 2009 sp2.0 to its Downloads page of the SolidWorks Customer Portal. Soon after I posted that I began my download and noticed that my download size (2.2 GB) seemed a lot bigger than what the discussion on Twitter was. Not too long later I received an email from SolidWorks. It read as follows:
Cannot Upgrade SP2 EV to SP2 Full. Due to changes made in SP2 Full, the SP2 EV version cannot be upgraded to SP2 Full version. If you have installed 2009 SolidWorks SP2.0 EV, you must uninstall it before installing 2009 SP2.0. Once 2009 SP2.0 EV is uninstalled, you can proceed by either:
Upgrading an existing SolidWorks 2009 SP0 or SP1.0 installation, a full download of 2009 SP2.0. Best regards, SolidWorks Corporation
So, if you have been running the early visibility release of SolidWorks 2009 sp2.0 you will have to completely uninstall it before you can install the full release of it. This is a nice detail to know before you begin the download. One thing that I did notice also when downloading SolidWorks 2009 sp2.0 (after I uninstalled SolidWorks 2009 sp2.0 EV) it did not recognize my serial number from the previous version as it normally does, so make sure you have that handy when you are installing SolidWorks 2009 sp2.0.